Bobby Rhinebolt, right, smokes a cigarette while sitting beside Victor Perez near a formerly sunken boat implanted upright in mud and now above the water line at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev. As the water level at the lake recedes, sunken boats and other debris are appearing along the shoreline.
Craig Miller hauls a hose while trying to free his stranded houseboat at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Miller had been living on the stranded boat for over two weeks after engine trouble and falling lake levels left the boat above the water level.
Dead and desiccated fish arranged by a visitor to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area stick out of cracked mud. The area, once under the waters of Lake Mead, dried up as water levels dropped.
Craig Miller looks as people help to free his stranded houseboat at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev.
Craig Miller sits in his stranded houseboat at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Miller had been living on the stranded boat for over two weeks after engine trouble and falling lake levels left the boat above the water level.
A formerly sunken boat sits high and dry along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lights illuminate boat docks at Hemenway Harbor on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Craig Miller smokes a cigarette beside his stranded houseboat at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Thursday, June 23, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev.
A formerly sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona.
In this aerial photo, a bathtub ring of light minerals show the high water mark on the shore of Lake Mead along the border of Nevada and Arizona. Climate experts say all the snow and rain over the winter months helped alleviate dry conditions in many parts of the western U.S., but the precipitation is nowhere near enough to unravel the long-term effects of a stubborn drought afflicting Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
A person is reflected in a window as they walk across Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nev. The bathtub ring of light minerals around Lake Mead shows the high water mark of the reservoir which has fallen to record lows. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A coyote walks across dry land that was once under the water of Lake Mead near Hemenway Harbor at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Wwhat was once the Echo Bay Marina sits high and dry next to Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. multi-year drought has caused the water level in Lake Mead to shrink to its lowest point since it was first filled in the 1930s.